BayesMultMeta

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Bayesian Multivariate Meta-Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Erik ThorsénFirst published 2022-05-172 releasesCRAN page ↗

Objective Bayesian inference procedures for the parameters of the multivariate random effects model with application to multivariate meta-analysis. The posterior for the model parameters, namely the overall mean vector and the between-study covariance matrix, are assessed by constructing Markov chains based on the Metropolis-Hastings algorithms as developed in Bodnar and Bodnar (2021) (arXiv:2104.02105). The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is designed under the assumption of the normal distribution and the t-distribution when the Berger and Bernardo reference prior and the Jeffreys prior are assigned to the model parameters. Convergence properties of the generated Markov chains are investigated by the rank plots and the split hat-R estimate based on the rank normalization, which are proposed in Vehtari et al. (2021) (DOI:10.1214/20-BA1221).

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("BayesMultMeta", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-bayesmultmeta

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-BayesMultMeta

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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Dependencies

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5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (2)

assertthat Rdpack

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Erik Thorsén

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Erik Thorsén

Author, Maintainer

Olha Bodnar

Author · added in 0.1.1

Taras Bodnar

Author

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Ohla Bodnar

no longer listed · 0.1.0

Package Timeline

2 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1Latest
2022-06-09 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.0
2022-05-17
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-17
Total releases: 2 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 17 KB
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